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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state

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506 points imakwana | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 04:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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revskill ◴[21 Apr 25 04:58 UTC] No.43748606[source]▶
With ai, i hope the feed is more useful to me.
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nehal3m ◴[21 Apr 25 05:23 UTC] No.43748705[source]▶
Remember when the feed was just a reverse chronological list of stuff you told Facebook you wanted to see? That was the peak. Once they started engagement farming using recommendation algorithms the site lost all of its appeal.
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1. tayo42 ◴[21 Apr 25 05:58 UTC] No.43748835[source]▶
I think the downfall was earlier then that. When businesses got on their. The first few times it was maybe clever, the Deli shop is my friend or what ever but I think that was the turning point for it's just friends connecting and the start of becoming ads and engagement.